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Daniel Rogers 140 posts 718 karma points

Sep 20, 2024 @ 12:09
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Umbraco14 Get data type folder by name
Trying to create a data type folder programmatically in a migration.

Then will create the data types in that folder.

Im trying to create folders in the data types programatically Old v13 method was
```
Guid contKey = new Guid();
var container = _contentTypeService.CreateContainer(containerId, contKey, name);
if (!container.Success)
{
    // Declare the array of IDs to lookup
    int[] ids = new int[0];
    return _contentTypeService.GetContainers(ids).FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == name && x.ParentId == containerId).Id;
}
else { return container.Result.Entity.Id; }
```
However .CreateContainer is obsolete now and are using IDataTypeContainerService is recommended but has some crucial functions missing.

Mainly get container by name.

If I create the folder structure from scratch this is fine but when you come to update it later need to be able to find it from a know value.

How do you search the datatype container to find a existing folder.

this code creates it if not existent. or returns "DuplicateName" if already their.

_dataTypeContainerService.CreateAsync(Guid.NewGuid(), name, parentKey, user.Key);

What is the best way to get the Guid of the folder via its name.

Any thoughts.
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Daniel Rogers 140 posts 718 karma points

Sep 22, 2024 @ 13:37

I think I have figured it out. But It has highlighted some shortfalls and errors in the IDataTypeCOntainerService.

There is no way of accessing the containers by either name or Id only Guid. This is rather limiting if you don,t know the Guid.

To make this work I have to routines one to find it the container exists the second to create it if it doesn't.

Find the container requires accessing the database directly and search for by name and parent key.

    private const string __rootDataContainer = "IBD Data Types";
private const string __options = "Options";

private Guid? GetExistingDataType (IUmbracoDatabase Database, Guid? parentKey, string name)
    {
        string? p = parentKey == null ? "-1" : _dataTypeContainerService.GetAsync((Guid)parentKey).Result.Id.ToString();
        Sql sql = Database.SqlContext.Sql().Select("[uniqueId]").From("[umbracoNode]").Where(string.Format("[text] = '{0}' and [nodeObjectType] = '521231E3-8B37-469C-9F9D-51AFC91FEB7B' and parentId = {1}", name, p));
        var result = Database.QueryAsync<Guid>(sql).FirstAsync();
        return result.IsCompletedSuccessfully ? result.Result : null;
    }

then if this returns a null create the container

    public Guid? GetOrCreateDataTypeContainerId(Guid? parentKey, string name)
    {
        int[] ugIds = new int[0];
        var userGroup = _userGroupService.GetAsync(ugIds).Result.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "Administrators");
        IUser? user = _userService.GetAllInGroup(userGroup.Id).First();

        var container = _dataTypeContainerService.CreateAsync(Guid.NewGuid(), name, parentKey, user.Key);
        return container.Result.Success ? (Guid)container.Result.Result.Key : null;
    }

So creating my containers I call them like this

    Guid? rootDataContainerKey = GetExistingDataType(Context.Database, null, __rootDataContainer) ?? GetOrCreateDataTypeContainerId(null, __rootDataContainer);
    Guid? optionsId = GetExistingDataType(Context.Database, rootDataContainerKey, __options) ?? GetOrCreateDataTypeContainerId(rootDataContainerKey, __options);

This works to a point and this is where the second issue arises

dataTypeContainerService.CreateAsync has an issue in that if a container with same name exists (at this stage have only proved if _options is in the root) then it dosent create _options under _rootDataContainer.

Expected result would be

IBD Data Types
     Options
Options -- pre existing folder

Instead result is

IBD Data Types
Options -- pre existing folder

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